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VOL. XXXIT.i
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School opened Thursday morn
ing with a fair attendance.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E, Puett spent
last Friday in Atlanta.
Mrs. Willis Pirkle, of Route 6,
is visiting relatives in town.
Mr. T. P. Burruss and family
visited in Dahlonega Wednesday.
Miss Eula Fisher has returned
from a week’s visit at Marietta.
Col, and Mrs. J. P. Fowler and
childen visited in Atlanta Tues
day.
Several from town attended
campmeeting at Lumpkin Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Davis and
son, Frank, spent Monday in
Gainesville.
Mr. M. W. Webb spent the
week end with his family at
Gainesville.
Messrs. Roy and John Strick
land were in Atlanta on business
Tuesday.
Mrs. G. W. Hansen and chil
dren are visiting relatives and
friends at Helen, Ga.
Mrs. M C. Jackson, who has
been quite sick, is better, we are
glad to note.
Forsyth Superior Court ad
journed last Fri Jay afternoon till
the sth Monday in October.
Miss Louise Fisher visited her
sister, Mrs. Vester Buice, on Kt.
3, last week.
Mr. Mark Hulsey, of Florida,
was the guest of his sister. Mrs.
R. A. Curruth, part of last week.
Miss Mattye Brady, of Jasper,
Ga., is the guest of her friend,
Mrs. Ross Carruth, this week.
Editor Geo. D. Rucker, of Al
pharetta, was in tow r n Friday of
last week.
Don’t fail to see Cumming
Garage about your laundry. They
will return it promptly.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hansard,
and Mr. and Mrs. Toy Hansard,
of Buford, visited Mr. and Mrs.
Hoy Hansard Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W, C. Wheeler
and children, of Canton, were
the week end guests of relatives
here.
The Ladies Missionary Society
of the Methodist church met with
Mrs. "J. H, Hockenhull Monday
afternoon.
Mrs. S. C. Cox and daughter,
Miss Dollie, of Ft. Worth, Tex.,
are visiting relatives and friends
in the town and county.
Mrs. G. W. Willbanks and cnil
dren, who have been visiting in
the county for several days,have
returned to their home at Cor
dele.
If you have any packages to
send to or bring from Atlanta,
call Cumming Garage. They op
erate a truck line for that pur
pose and will appreciate your
patronage. ,
THE N< )RTH GEORGIAN
Misses Kathryn and Antoinette
Merritt are spending a week in
Roswell, the guests of the Misses
Foster.
Rev. L. A. Henderson of Law
renceville, was shaking hands
with old Forsyth county friends
one day last week.
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Presiding Elder S. R. England
preachedl some good’ sermons
at the Methodist church Sunday
night and Monday morning.
Mesdames Sallie Tatum and T.
J. Pirkle attended the Woman’s
Missionary Union of the Baptist
church, at Buford, Wednesday of
last week,
Cumming Garage will sell or
rent you a car at a reasonable
price. Their sole object is to
please theirlcustomers.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. L Bowman
and two children, of Buford,
were visiting J. E. Kirby and
family part of last week and this.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Brown en
tertained at dinner Sunday, Mr.
and Mrs. L. C. Denson and chil
dren and little Miss Alma Mae
Bowman, of Buford.
Mr. Frank Bacon left Saturday
for New Orleans, where he has
accepted a position with a well
known automobile agency. Here’s
wishing him success in his new
field of labor.
Col. John Dorsey, C. J. Bran
non. Candler Clement, “Pat”
Smith, sheriff of Milton county,
and John Hulsey left Tuesday to
spend a few days in the moun
tains. fox hunting and fishing.
If you need tires or accessories
of any kind, call Cumming Gar
age. They can fit you up with
anything you want in that line.
Prices are right.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tatum are
moving from Atlanta to Cum
ming. they Hwill occupy, tem
porarily, rooms in the residence
of Mr. Thad Burruss.
Dr. J, A. Otwell and wife have
returned to their home at Cor
dele, after visiting relatives here
and in Dawson county. Their
niece, Miss Allene Jones, of Dah
lonega, accompanied them.
We are just in receipt of a let
ter from Prof. W. M. Pettis in
which he states that he and wife
are located at Adel, Ga., for the
year. He also sends his kindest
regards to his friends in Gum
ming and vicinity.
Mr. W. T. Nalley, Alpharetta,
Rt. 1, has moved to Gainesville.
He was one of Forsyth county’s
most progressive citizens, and
we regret very much to lose him,
but here’s wishing him every
success in his new home.
Rev. H. M. Strozier, who is
visiting his brother-in-law, Geo.
D, Rucker, in Alpharetta, was in
Cumming one day last week. Mr.
Strozier was pastor of the Meth
odist church in Cumming twenty
nine years ago, and found many
changes in the town since he was
here.
Mr. Clarance Buice, ag'ed 36
years, died at his home near Sha
ron last Monday, and was buried
at Sharon Tuesday. He leaves a
wife and two children and hun
dreds of other relatives, who
have the sympathy of friends
and neighbors.
GUMMING, GA. SEPTEMBER < } 19ai
A Good Citizen Passes Away.
Mr. J. H. Pruitt, a promnent
citizen of Cumming, died sud
denly last Friday afternoon, fie
was fifty seven years old and is
survived by his wife and five
children, and numerous other rel
atives, to whom we extend sym
pathy, The remains were bur
ied at Haw Creek Saturday af
ternoon, the funeral services be
ing conducted by Revs. Thomp
son and Anderson, after which
the Odd Fellows took charge, of
which order he was a member.
Marietta, Ga., Aug. 27, 1921,
The North Georgian,
Cumming, Ga.
Gentlemen:—
On leaving Cumming Friday I
learned of the setious attack that
finally ended in the death of my
friend, Hannibal Pruitt.
No man on earth was ever any
truer to his friends than he was,
and I alwavs will remember the
kindnesses he rendered me and
the many talks we have had to
gether.
I am mighty sorry circum
stances are such I cannot get
over to his funeral this after
noon. I don’t know of any ser
vice on earth that is worth more
than a man who is willing to help
those who are down and out, and
I never saw a man in my life
who needed help that could not
get it from him. He always
willing and always anxious to do
something for others. May God
bless him and his.
Respectfully,
Herbert Clay.
Family Rennion.
On Tuesday, August 30th, the
sons and daughters of Mrs. W,R,
Otwell, including their families,
met back home and held a fami
ly reunion. Other guests were:
Mrs. J. B, Walker, of Atlanta,
Ernest Willbanks, from Cordele,
Mrs. Ann Merritt, of near Cum
ming. and Othella Word
There were present in all about
forty.
After dinner had been served
the crowd assembled and a pic
ture made for us to keep as a re
me: ibrance of the day in years
to ;j:ne. A Guest.
Mr. Editor:—
Please allow me space to ex
press my thanks to our subscrib
ers for their prompt response to
request for settlement of tele
phone bills between the Ist and
10th of the month. Over 00 per
cent, of the bills were paid last
month before the 10th.
Cumming, Ga , Sept. 1, 1921,
J. E. PUETT,
Manager.
Card of Thanks.
We wish to thank our friends
and neighbors tor their kindness
shown us thru the sickness and
death of our darling little son,
Clinton, who departed this life
Aug. Bth, 1921.
We also thank Dr. Hockenhull
for his medical aid.
May God bless and be with
each one is our prayer.
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Day.
Mrs. J. L. Phillips is spending
a few days in Atlanta.
Miss Sallie Blackstone has re
turned from a ten day’s visit to
friends in Montgomery, Ala.
The Ladies’ Baptist Missiona
ry Circle met with Mrs. T.J.Pir
kle Wednesday afternoon.
SJCumming’s base ball team
went to Duluth Monday and won
the game by a score of 6 to 0.
LONGSTRHET.
Mr. W M Puckett and famil
of Atlanta spent a day or two of
last week with Mr. and Mrs. Will
Puckett.
Mrs. Truman Redd and chil
dren of Atlanla have been visit
ing friends in our neighborhood.
Several from here ’ attended
Lumpkin campmeeting Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J N Timms were
visiting Mr. Henry Richards and
family at Union Hill Saturday
night.
Messrs. George Bagwell and
wife, Homer Henderson and
wife w'ere visiting Mrs. Curtis
Phillips Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Holbrook
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Judge Timms.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Stow an
nounce the arrival of a little girl.
Mr. and Mrs. J L. Richards an
nounee the arrival of a fine boy
Mr. and Mrs. Howell Bates
spent Friday night with Mr. and
Mrs. Otis Wood.
Messrs. John M Stow and Sam
Richards, who were bitten by a
mad dog several weeks ago, are
doing well.
Miss Laura Emma Devore
spent last week with Dr and Mrs.
J T Hunter,
The many friends of Mrs. Mar
tha Hamby will regret to know
that she is not doing well.
L. H.
NEW LIBERTY
Saturday and Sunday was reg
ular meeting days at Mt. Pisgah
and we had a good meeting each
day. The best of all wish to say
the young folks went to meeting
on Saturday instead of going to
the picnic. Young people, if you
I will keep this up the Lord will
bless vou and you will be a light
to the world.
Rev Eddie Echols of Cumming
and Jones of near Harmony Grove
preached Sunday and we had a
good meeting.
The death of Mr. J H Pruitt
brought sadness to almost every
body ill the county, and his death
ought to cause us to know that
we are liable to go at any time,
and for this reason we ought to
live right, as we can’t tell when
our time will come,
A woman at Canton got up last
Thursday morning, cooked break
fast, and at 6 o’clock in the eren
ing she was a corpse. Was bur
ied at Pisgah Friday. So I tell
you we had better be ready, for
our time will come some day.
I am glad ta hear of the good
meetings almost everywhere and
I believe most of the people have
found out that all the new things
that man is getting up is not the
thing. We can see at once that
it has caused the most disturb
ance in our churches of anything
and it is time for us to drop all
such things, as I believe we are
doing, to some extent, and fall
in line like we use to be, and we
will then always have good meet
ings.
So I wish to warn the people
against some of the things that
are hurting the cause, but I can’t
now as I have not time, but will
say the way our fathers and
mothers run the meetings is the
best way for us and is good
enough for us all.
Bob White.
Cuba and Alpharetta played a
double header game of ball last
Saturday, winning both games.
The score was first game, 3 to 1.
Second gams 6 to 1.
Home Circle Column.
Pleasant Evening Reveries A Column Dedi
cated to Tired Mothers as They Join the
home Circle at Evening Tide.
A CONTENTED SPIRIT.
Remember, if you have only what is called an ordinary
home, that the great deliverers of the world have all come
from such a home. And there may be seated reading at your
evening stand a child who shall be potent for the ages. Just
unroll the scroll of men mighty in church and state, and you
will find they nearly all come from log runs out in the third
or fourth generation. Your cannot find in all history cabin
or poor homes. Genius almost an instance where the fourth
generation of extraordinary people amount to anything. Co
lumbus from a weaver’s hut, Demosthenes from a cutler’s
cellar, Bloomfield and Missionary Carey from a shoemaker’s
bench, Arkwright from a barber’s shop and he whose name
is high over all in the earth and air and sky from a manger.
Let us all he content with such things as we have. God is
just as good in what he keeps away from us as in what he
gives us. Even a knot may be useful if it is at the end of a
thread. The spider draws poison out of a flower; the bees
get hocey out of a thistle, but happiness is a heavenly elixir
and the contented spirit extracts it not from the rhododend
ron of the hills, but from the lilly of the valley.
ONLY A LITTLE THING.
The secular press is carrying the story of how a crawfish,
not over three inches in length, shut clown a big iron plant in
Wheeling, W. Va., and threw 3,000 men for the time being
in idleness. The crawfish had traveled from the river thru
the pump plant to the city reservoir and thence thru the wa
ter maim and pipes until it reached the meter of the Laßelle
lion Works. Sodging in the meter, it shut off the supply and
stopped the whole plant. Only a little thing, but it cost that
plant the loss of considerable time and money.
Only a cigarette, but it turned a bright boy into a nicotine
reservoir. He failed in college and failed in busines because
his heart and brain w'ere poisoned by the “little white slaver.”
Only a social glass, but it turned a brilliant youth into a
poor old drunkard. Money gone, friends gone, loved ones
desolate and broken-hearted, he finally fell under the wheels
of a rushing locomotive and his poor soul went out into the
night of eternal gloom.
Only a “little sin’’ 'unrepented of and unforgiven, but it
brings on the sinner the full penalty of the law that declares
that the soul that sinneth shall'die. “The wages of sin is
death.”
In view of the tremendous possibilities of good and evil
that are to be found in almost every thought and word and
action, we sometimes wonder if there are any “little tilings”
in this wot Id. A tiny wire may carry a spark that will blow
up a mountain. A word may create influences that will shake
a nation. The life of a humble peasant has revolutionized the
world and will sooner or later give it a civilization beyond
anythin!! which we have yet had the courage to hope. Sure
iy there are no little things.
And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent
to the understanding also after long intervals of time. A fev
er, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a
loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss and unpay
able, but the sure years reveal the deep remedial form that
underlies all facts. The death of a dear friend, wife, brother,
lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later
assumes the aspect of a guide or genius, tor it commonly
operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epock
of infancy or of youth which has been waiting to be closed,
biea ;s up a wanted occupation or a household or style of liv
ing, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to
tho growth of character. It permits or constrains the form
ation of new acquaintances, and the reception of new influ
ences which prove of the first importance to the next years,
and the man or woman who would have remained a sunny
gaiden flower with no room for its roots and too much sun
shine for its head, by the falling of the walls and the neglect
of the gardner, is made of the banian of the forest, yielding
shade and fruit to wide neighborhoods of men.
—Emerson.
, Jr:
“A liar is never wise.
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There is no gospel in a kick.
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